Chapter 6 joking

Since the promotion of humorous literature, selling laughter has become the occupation of literati.Of course, humor is expressed through laughter, but laughter does not necessarily mean humor.Liu Jizhuang's "Guangyang Miscellaneous Notes" says: "Donkeys bray like crying, and horses neigh like laughing." Horses are not famous for their humor, probably because their faces are too long.To be honest, the laughter of most people is just like a horse screaming, not full of humor. It seems that Aristotle was the first to use humor to distinguish between humans and animals.He said in "Zoology": "Man is the only animal that can laugh." W. S. Blunt, a modern strange man, has a sonnet in "Laughter and Death", which briefly says that nature is like birds. Beasts and the like, happy, angry, loving, and afraid, all make appropriate sounds, only lacking in humorous laughter.However, if laughter is designed to express humor, it can only be regarded as a waste or a luxury, because not all human beings need to laugh.The chirping of birds and beasts is sufficient to express the emotions of ordinary people. When angry, a lion roars, when sad, apes cry, when fighting, frogs croak, when meeting enemies, it is like a dog barking, and when seeing a lover, it is like a dove calling a wife (cooing).May I ask how many people really have humor and need to laugh to express it?However, the Creator has distributed the ability to laugh fairly to all human beings. It is possible to smile on the face and laugh in the throat; it would be a pity not to use this ability.Therefore, ordinary people do not laugh because they have humor, but because they can laugh and use laughter to cover up their lack of humor.The original meaning of laughter is gradually lost; what was originally an expression of rich humor has slowly become a cover for poor humor.So you see fools laughing stupidly, blind people taking advantage of their laughter -- and humorous literature that is all the rage.

Smile is the most fluid and rapid expression, from the eyes to the corners of the mouth.Dongfang Shuo's "Shen Yi Jing".It is recorded in the "Eastern Wasteland" that the king of the East failed to hit the pot, "Heaven laughed at him", and Zhang Hua's annotation said that the sky's smile is lightning, which is really a very clever imagination.According to Lady Holland's "Reminiscences", Sidney.Sidney Smith once said: "Lightning is the wit of the sky." Laughter can indeed be said to be the lightning on the human face, the eyes suddenly brighten, and the teeth shine between the lips.We cannot withhold the lightning in place of the high sun and moon, so we cannot turn laughter into a fixed, collective expression.Humor produced by advocacy must be artificial humor.This mechanized smile is just like the bared teeth of a skeleton, not the agile posture of a living person.Bergson's "Le Rire" (Le Rire) said that all the ridiculous begins when the flexible becomes rigid, and the vivid behavior becomes mechanical~{(Lem canique plaque sur Levivant).Therefore, the reappearance of monotonous words and actions will all make people laugh, like stuttering, like oral idioms, like children imitating adults on purpose.Old men are often more ridiculous than young men, just because old men are not as flexible as young men, they are just a series of rigid habits.Humor cannot be advocated, and for this reason.Once advocated, what is natural and expressive becomes imitative, and what is unrestrained becomes stereotyped.This kind of humor is itself humorous material, and this kind of laughter is itself ridiculous.A really humorous person has a ulterior motive, laughs happily alone, smiles coldly, and breathes a sigh of relief for the dull life.Maybe hundreds of years later, tens of thousands of miles away, there will be another person who looks at each other and smiles with him across the river bank of time and space.If a large number of people laugh, open their mouths, relax their voices, make an appointment, and laugh in groups, it can only be regarded as a series of funny meetings in a low-end amusement park.The promotion of domestic products has added fakes, not to mention that humor is something that cannot be mass-produced.Therefore, after the promotion of humor, there are no humorists, but countless little tricks.Putting on the signboard of humor, of course Xiao Hualian's social status greatly increased, and he left the theater and mixed into the literary world; on the other hand, after being faked as Xiao Hualian, the quality of humor deteriorated, and most of the literature and art can only be regarded as "entertainment".The little face also makes us laugh, not bad!But he was nothing like a real humorist.A really humorous person can laugh, and we laugh along with him; a funny face pretending to be humorous, we laugh at him.The little face makes us laugh not because of his humor, but because of our own.

Therefore, humor is at most a kind of temperament, and it must not be labeled as an opinion, let alone a profession.Let us not forget that the Latin word for humour is liquid; in other words, like the women in Jia Baoyu's mind, humor is made of water.Taking humor as a habitual doctrine or a life's basic necessities, that is, liquids are solidified, and living things are made into specimens.People who really have a sense of humor, if they want to sell their laughter for a living, their works will not be appreciated, such as Mark.Mark Twain: Since the end of the 18th century, Germans have been fond of humor, but the more they talk about it, the more irrelevant it is, because the Germans are a sausage-making nation, and they mistakenly believe that humor is like minced meat, which can be wrapped Stop and go, as ready-made food for the mind.Humor reduces the seriousness of life and never takes oneself seriously.True humor is capable of laughing at oneself. It is not only a humorous view of life, but also a humorous view of humor itself.Promoting humor as a slogan, a standard, is a lack of humor;We think of Ma Ming Xiao Xiao again!The voice sounded like a smile, but the horse's face was not smiling at all, and it was still stretched out, like a friend who died late at a memorial service, and like an advanced master on a podium.Generally speaking, there are two motives for pretending a thing.Or out of respect, for example, vulgar objects respect art, so they collect antiques, arty.Or out of use, for example, the villain has an attempt to use religious morality to pretend to be a gentleman.Humor was borrowed, and I can't think of these two reasons.However, fakes cannot be authentic after all.Western idioms call those with clear laughter "silver laughter". Fake humor is like counterfeit coins mixed with lead, making a heavy and dull sound, which can only be regarded as lead laughter.However, "silver smile" may be a profit from laughing, and the meaning of silver in the smile is like saying "there is a house of gold in the book"; Gu Bei said it for the reference of dictionary scholars.